Ignacio López Tarso

Born: 1925-01-15

Ignacio López López (b. 15 January 1925 – 11 March 2023), better known as Ignacio López Tarso, was a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for Rosa Blanca, and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He was honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.


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Under the Volcano

as Dr. Vigil
Released: 1984-06-20

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are...

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Macario

as Macario
Released: 1960-05-09

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife...

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Nazarin

as Thief in church
Released: 1959-06-04

After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a...

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Pedro Paramo

as Fulgor Sedano
Released: 1967-01-26

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his...

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The Golden Cockerel

as Dionisio Pinzón
Released: 1964-12-18

A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love...

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Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor

as Francisco Gabilondo Soler 'Cri-Cri'
Released: 1963-12-12

Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood,...

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Juana Gallo

as Pioquinto
Released: 1961-05-21

Peasant woman leads a regiment during the final days of the Mexican Revolution. Also, romantic...

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The Bricklayers

as Don Jesus
Released: 1976-12-23

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from...

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La casta divina

as Don Wilfrido
Released: 1977-11-17

Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people...

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Autumn Days

as Albino
Released: 1963-10-31

Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of...

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La Cucaracha

as Trinidad
Released: 1959-11-12

The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom...

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My Son, the Hero

as Gunslinger
Released: 1961-10-05

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons...

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The Paper Man

as Adán
Released: 1963-10-05

A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he...

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The Children of Sanchez

as Ignacio
Released: 1978-06-16

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of...

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Love Your Neighbor

as (voice)
Released: 1958-10-23

This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital,...

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La Generala

as Rosauro Márquez
Released: 1971-01-01

During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence...

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Rapine

as Porfirio
Released: 1975-05-14

Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top...

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The White Rose

as Jacinto Yáñes
Released: 1961-07-19

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell...

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The Prophet Mimi

as Ángel Peñafiel, Mimi
Released: 1973-12-27

Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder .

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Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo

as Joselito
Released: 2018-07-26

Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from...

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Banderas, the Tyrant

as Coronel de la Gándara
Released: 1993-11-19

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos...

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Sonatas

as Jefe de guerrilleros
Released: 1959-10-12

In the fall of 1824 Javier Montenegro, Bradomin Marquis is spared death hanging by Captain...

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The Door and The Butcher's Wife

as Melitón Torres (segment "La mujer del carnicero")
Released: 1969-09-25

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society...

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Reclusorio

as Viejo (segment "Quiero quedarme en la carcel")
Released: 1997-09-19

The human and divine justice are exposed through five real life stories related to the legal...

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The Useless Life of Pito Pérez

as Pito Pérez
Released: 1970-09-15

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

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Morenita, El Escandalo

as Santiago
Released: 2009-03-01

Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals...

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Un hombre en la trampa

as uncredited
Released: 1965-03-03

Odyssey of a man involved in a criminal activity, which leads him to his moral and material failure.

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Vanilla, Bronze and to Die

as Ricardo Castillo
Released: 1957-12-04

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a...

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Tarahumara (Further and farther)

as Raúl
Released: 1965-06-08

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds...

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One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo

as Self
Released: 2017-11-03

This documentary explores key moments in the life of writer Juan Rulfo, with artists such as...

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La Bandida

as Anselmo
Released: 1963-01-01

During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to...

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Taken Identity

as Don Jesus
Released: 2020-11-11

Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival,...

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¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?

as uncredited
Released: 1977-05-03

Working-class dude grows up surrounded with petty delinquency and ghetto temptations; he marries...

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Then God Named It Earth

as Efrén Domínguez
Released: 1961-09-07

During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the...

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Antonieta

as Vargas
Released: 1982-10-21

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific...

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The Shadow of the Tyrant

as General Hilario Jiménez
Released: 1960-08-22

In 1920s Mexico, the candidates being chosen to succeed the current president, El Caudillo, find...

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Cayó de la gloria el diablo

as Don Eme (Emeterio Sánchez)
Released: 1972-05-11

Subsistence-economy slum guy who sells used newsprint for a living breaks into showbiz with an...

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Wolves Aren't Meant For The Circus

as Don Cristóbal
Released: 2021-05-05

After an all-nighter, Ricardo gets to his apartment only to find his family ready to have an...

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Toña Machetes

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-31

A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.

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Los amantes frios

as uncredited
Released: 1978-04-20

Three-fer anthology of black-humor sex-n-death anecdotes.

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Corazón de niño

as uncredited
Released: 1963-07-17

The story tells us about an old teacher from the town, who upon knowing he was going to die,...

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Notes from Under the Volcano

as Self
Released: 1984-09-09

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of John Huston's "Under the Volcano" (1984).

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Astucia

as Don Polo
Released: 1986-11-06

Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...

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Happy Year, My Love

as uncredited
Released: 1957-01-31

Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.

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La desconocida

as uncredited
Released: 1954-01-01

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Muelle rojo

as uncredited
Released: 1987-10-12

Three episodes from the "history" of organized labor in the harbors of Tampico, 1912 to...

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The Devil's Visitations

as Felix Estrella
Released: 1968-08-15

A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where...

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Codicia mortal

as uncredited
Released: 1991-10-21

Drug dealer tries to force local subsistance farmers to sell their land to him. The village's...

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La trinchera

as uncredited
Released: 1969-12-04

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Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin

as Self
Released: 2015-03-09

"Nazarín is a Quixote of the priesthood " "Among the films I have made in Mexico, Nazarin is one...

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Looking for a Wall

as José Clemente Orozco
Released: 1974-09-19

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

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Our Daily Hunger

as Pablo
Released: 1960-04-25

Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social...

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Saint Lucifer

as Father Leopoldo Santos Higareda
Released: 1997-04-15

A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide...

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El otro

as Sr. Tabares
Released: 1986-04-24

A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an...

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Resigned for Reasons of Health

as Gustavo Sánchez Campero
Released: 1976-09-02

A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental...

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Veneno

as uncredited
Released: 2002-01-01

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A Long Journey Toward Death

as Dr. David
Released: 1968-07-03

Juan is subjected to shock treatment in the hands of Dr. David, and apparently is able to resume...

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The Waterwheel

as Old Man
Released: 2013-04-25

In a small town, time stops for a father who has lost his son.

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Buenos días, Ignacio

as uncredited
Released: 2021-12-31

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La estrella vacía

as Luis Arvide
Released: 1960-05-05

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

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Wild at Heart

as Ramiro Olivares
First aired: 2013-02-25

Corazón indomable is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a...

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Esmeralda

as Melesio
First aired: 1996-12-31

Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970...

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Curse by the Sea

as El Mojarras
First aired: 2009-11-16

Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists...

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¡Vivan los niños!

as Ignacio Robles
First aired: 2002-07-15

¡Vivan los niños! is a Mexican telenovela for children that premiered in 2002. It ran for 155...

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Ángela

as Feliciano Villanueva
First aired: 1998-11-30

Angela is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las...

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Crystal Empire

as César Lombardo
First aired: 1994-08-29

Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from...

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Conversando con Cristina Pacheco

as Self
First aired: 1997-09-26

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Camila

as Don Genaro
First aired: 1998-09-14

This page refers to the 1998 soap opera. For the 1984 Argentinian movie see Camila. Camila is a...

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Loves with Trap

as Porfirio
First aired: 2015-03-02

Los Carmona viven en el campo y su vida cambiará radicalmente cuando el gobierno les expropia su...

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De Pocas Pocas Pulgas

as Don Julián Montes
First aired: 2003-03-17

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La casa en la playa

as Don Ángel Villarreal Cueto
First aired: 2000-04-10

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Peregrina

as Baltasar
First aired: 2005-11-14

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Las Lunas del Auditorio

as Self
First aired: 2002-09-04

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Atrévete a Olvidarme

as Gonzalo Rivas
First aired: 2001-08-06

Atrévete a Olvidarme is a short-lived Mexican telenovela. Running for only one month in 2001,...

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El Encanto del Águila

as Porfirio Díaz
First aired: 2011-11-15

A detailed dramatization of historical events during the time of the Revolution in Mexico. ...

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Navidad sin Fin

as Rodito
First aired: 2001-12-17

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